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Difference between Peg someone down and Take someone down a peg

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peg someone down—

1. force a person to keep to a decision, agreement, etc.:

  • One can’t peg him down to one genre of music because each CD can span several genres.

2. have a fixed opinion of a person:

  • She had already pegged him down as a lazy, boozing, drug-taking, and altogether irresponsible man.

take someone down a peg —(also: take someone down a peg or two) make smb. feel less important; snub or humiliate a person:

  • The most influential paper picked the moment of his greatest triumph to take him down a peg.